The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-17
News of the Week.

Diphtheria caused As deaths in New York
last week.
The wheat area in Ohio is estimated at IS
per cent. that of last year, or about 1000 acres
short.
Six hundred dollars worth of Botetourt
county bonds were stolen from the safe of the
4 County Treasurer, in Fincastle, Virginia. ON
Monday night.
Charles King, of Middleton, Mass, claims
to have five hundred descendants. He is 10Y
years of age, and says he was attended but
twice during his life by doctors.
Rev. Thomas McGovern, Rector of St.
Joseph's Church, at Danvile, Pennsylvania,
has been appointed Bishop of Harrisburg, to
succeed the late Bishop Shanahan.
By collision between two carriages in
Wichita, Kansas, on Monday night, man
named johnson was killed and three women
were dangerously if not fatally injured.
David Neighbour, of Califou, Hunterdon
county, n. j., who recently celebrated his
9lst birthday, is said to be the Oldest living
ex member of the New Jersey Legislature.
The Mexican authorities are making siren
uous efforts to capture the Bandit Bernal and
his band, who in the past year have killed
nearly 1000 people and destroyed over 100
towns.
In Washington, on Saturday, Judge Smell,
of the Police Court, fined George W. Harvey,
a restaurant keeper, 500 for refusing to serve
a colored lawyer named Hewlett. Harvey
took an appeal.
The excitement and anxiety among prop
erty holders in Nashua, N. H., over the fire.
quency of incendiary fires continues, and it is
said that insurance companies contemplate
withdrawing protection.
tro;ps ooII;Iol -, H.
peake and Ohio Railroad, near Clifton
Forge, Virginia, on Sunday. Three men
were killed, one of whom was Conductor Fry.
Both trains were wrecked.
The Executive Committee of the Council
of Administration of the Grand Army of the
Republic has decided to hold the next Nation
al Grand Encampment at Columbus, Ohio,
in the second week in September next, ~
A mob broke into the Jail at Leoti, Wichita
county, Kan, Sunday morning, to lynch
Thomas Allen, implicated in the killing of
Coulter and Ransom. Sheriff Edwards and
Deputy Wade resisted and drove the mob eff
Henry Fawcett and his wife, living near
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, went to church
on Sunday, leaving their three children, the |
eldest being but five years old, locked up at |
home. When the parents returned they found |
the house in ashes and the children burned to |
death.
Deputy United States Marshal Thomas on
Saturday took to Fort Smith, Arkansas, forty
two criminals. Twelve are charged with
murder and five with assault with intent to
kill. They all came from the Indian Terri.
tory and will be tried in the United States
Court
Rev. Hugh 0. Pentecost on last Sunday
resigned the pastorate of the Bellevile
Avenue Congregational Church, in Newark,
New Jersey In his sermon he reviewed the
causes which led to his action, and concluded
by saying that ''he could not any longer be
identified with orthodox Christianity"
The farm house of Michael Harris, in
Dakota, burned Saturday night, and it is
reported that the entire family of nine per
sons were burned to death. Another report
says that Mrs. Harris and six of her seven
children persisted, and that Mr.. Harris and
the eldest child, a daughter escaped, severely
burned.
The jury in the case of L. l.. Harper
who had been on trial in the United States
Court in Cincinnati, on Monday morning.
'eturned verdict of guilty as charged in
he indictment. This meant guilty on all
he thirty three counts left for the jury to act
lpon. Judge Sage then sentenced Harper to
EN- years Imprisonment.
A meeting of representative men from
nearly all the local assemblies, Knights of
labor, was held in Philadelphia on Sunday,
1t which resolutions were adopted recon-.
nending that all the local assemblies make
lemand upon the general executive board for
IN itemized account of all the expenditures
made by that body during the past year.
A gentleman writing from Bavispe, Mexico,
he scene of the recent earthquakes, says the
ntire town has been destroyed and many
'ersons killed. The provisions and supplies !
provided by the State and from private
ources are exhausted and the entire vicinity
S destitute of provisions and clothing aaill
nless aid is furnished soon theSAnG